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TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project

UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency will lead the TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project, in partnership with the National Center for…

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tom steyer and john bowers lecture

TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project

UCSB's Institute for Energy Efficiency will lead the TomKat UC Carbon Neutrality Project, in partnership with the National Center for…

General

tri alpha reactor

Peek Inside Tri Alpha Energy, a Company Pursuing the Ideal Power Source

A startup in California has raised $500 million to chase the elusive dream of fusion power. Is this crazy, or is the company on to…

Industry and Business

Art Gossard

Video: Institute Faculty Member Arthur Gossard Receives the National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Watch President Obama award the recipients of the National Medals of Science and Technology, including Institute and UCSB faculty member…

Awards and Accolades, In the News

energy smart home

Have We Been Trying to Build the Energy-Smart Home All Wrong?

Despite advances in monitoring building energy efficiency, homeowners just aren't concerned with how much energy they're saving.

Industry and Business

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The Unbelievable Reality of the Impossible Hyperloop

Hyperloop Technologies is testing a radical alternative to modern freight and transportation, where metal capsules traverse magentic…

Industry and Business

wind turbines

Getting Cheap Wind Power Where It’s Needed Shouldn’t Be This Hard

Because so much energy is generated in remote areas of the Great Plains, it is difficult to bring clean energy to the major cities in…

Industry and Business

march newsletter

Newsletter: March 2016

Newsletter

Galen Stucky

UCSB Materials Professor Galen Stucky to Receive the “Spirit of Innovation” Award

Dr. Stucky is being recognized for a major advance in medical technology, the development a kaolin clay-based gauze that can stanch…

Awards and Accolades

solar panel

Solar3D Launches New Brand and Logo; Changes Corporate Name to Sunworks

Sunworks, (formerly known as Solar3D) a leading provider of solar power solutions, is focused on the design, installation and management…

Industry and Business

voltage collapse diagram

Voltage Collapse in Complex Power Grids

This paper features a "node-by-node measure of grid stress, a prediction of the largest nodal voltage deviation, and an estimate of the…

Research

UCSB Campus

A Year in Review: UCSB Finds Sustainability Success As 2015 Comes to a Close

2015 was a year of success for UCSB Sustainability as our campus works towards reduced water waste, implementing new sustainable…

Graduate, Undergraduate

led lightbulb

LED Lighting to Reach $42.5B by 2020

Residential needs have dominated the LED market for the past few years, and as demand in Asia and Europe increases, the market is…

Industry and Business

led lighting

DOE Proposed Light Bulb Energy Efficiency Standards to Lead to $12.5 Billion in Annual Consumer Savings

Once all of America's approximately 4 billion lighting sockets contain energy-saving bulbs that meet the standards, U.S. consumers and…

Industry and Business

solar panel

Morocco’s Massive Desert Solar Project Starts Up

Last week, Morocco opened the first phase of what may become the largest solar energy plant in the world in an effort to reach their…

Industry and Business

semiconductor venn diagram

Silicon Photonics - From Promise To Reality In Datacentres

The power needs of data centers will continue to rise in the future, with cloud storage and data flow speed as the main contributors to…

Research